Ebook: Mephisto in the Third Reich : literary representations of evil in Nazi Germany
Author: Barasch-Rubinstein Emanuela
- Tags: Devil in literature. German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Evil in literature. German literature. Deutsch Literatur Teufel
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- City: Berlin, Jerusalem
- Language: English
- epub
The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil - the devil - can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe's Mephisto. Barasch-Rubinstein looks into this phenomenon and analyzes the premise that the image of the devil had a substantial impact on Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideas
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